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1. What is the Allegory of the Cave? Explain its significance generally (how it might apply to our everyday lives) as well as specifically (regarding PlatoÂ’s theory of forms).

2. What are the important differences between PlatoÂ’s and AristotleÂ’s epistemology (how we come to know things)?

3. Explain the Divided Line.

4. For Descartes, what is it possible to doubt? Why?

5. For Descartes, what is it not possible to doubt? Why?

6. What do you think is the best argument in favor of dualism (that we are both a mind and a body)?

7. What do you think is the best argument in favor of materialism (that we are simply a body)?

8. Describe how Hobbes views the Natural StateÂ…. Why it is the Natural State and how it leads to social contracts.

9. What do you think is the best argument in favor of determinism?

10. What do you think is the best argument in favor of freewill?

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Preview: ... dlessly from on term to the other, without reaching a support point where to rest and "be". And, since each of the terms is the other's denial, the mind would not be able to rest at any of them without, for an instant, denying the other: precisely at that instant, the mind is not in doubt - it is either affirming or denying, it is affirming one thing and denying the other, even though it may not be able to persevere in the affirmation or in the denial without thinking of a thousand reasons to abandon either. And, in the instant of affirmation or denial, doubt suppresses itself as such and fights for its establishment as affirmation or denial; but it fails, and it is of this failure that doubt is made of. What follows is an inevitable conclusion: a doubt that does not doubt itself, a doubt that, suspending the alternation, imposes itself as a "state" and thus remains, is impossible. In taking doubt as a "state", omitting that it is an alternation between two antagonistic instants, Descartes reifies it and takes it as a certainty: "I cannot doubt that I doubt in the instant I doubt", a sentence Descartes takes as an expression of the most conspicuous obviousness, is actually the expression of logical nonsense and of psychological impossibility. What would be more correct to say is that, in doubting, I doubt about everything, doubt itself included. Doubt is not a state: it is the succession and coexistence of antagonistic states, it is a not being able to be.2<br><br>What leads Descartes into error is the fact that he takes doubt for denial, or, better yet, for hypothetical denial. I can, actually, make up a hypothetical denial and repeat ...

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